Don Sinoccio person
also: Mr. Malox, Sinoccio, Sinico, Sunoco, Sunilco, Soneko
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Norwin Menendez funded
Don Sinoccio guest_asserted
“Success number six was we are receiving some attention from the Cuban people that appear eager to help. Success number seven was Mr. Menendez contribution. Menendez had dropped off a contribution on the little group at their first meeting a…”
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had a house in San Francisco to meet some other Nicaraguans that maybe could help. Ainsworth found the group Pleasant consisting of middle-aged husbands and wives, most of them Nicaraguan immigrants, one of which was Anastasio Simoes, the p…
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was a pharmaceutical salesman by the name of Don Sinoccio, known to others in the trade as Mr. Malox, because he sold popular antacid prescriptions to local hospitals. Sinoccio was not Nicaraguan. He had been born in Italy and had moved to …
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and married a local Nicaraguan woman by the name of Nydia Gonzalez. She was the daughter of General Gonzalez, part of the National Guard. As the covert war in Nicaragua escalated, stories about the conflict began popping up in San Francisco…
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He believed the press was cheerleading for the Sandinistas, and he fired off letter after letter after letter. In late 1983, Sinico said he had gotten a phone call from a man named Aldolfo Calero, head of the political wing of the FDN. Sini…
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We need you to be part of our PR group. Sinico formed a small organization called United Support Against Communism in the Americas. He and his friends held local meetings to publicize the plight of the Contras. Sinico said he had never met …
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in America's political system that was helping. So he decided to take it upon himself to help because he had political connections everywhere. He wanted to draw attention to their cause. Why not sponsor a speaking tour and have some contra …
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with several influential business leaders and statewide Republicans. It wasn't really a fundraiser. It was more of a meal and a cocktail party. Afterwards, Calero, Ainsworth, and Sinico, and about 20 others, drove over to an Italian restaur…
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main event. And Norwin Menendez came in with a crowd dressed in a very expensive suit. And they're kind of milling around. Well, one of the guys, Soneko, who's kind of wanting to get pictures to put out for promotion of the cause, starts ta…
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They say that there was a picture taken of him and he turns his head. He doesn't want to be seen in these pictures. So and Sinico says that he suddenly realized that he's the guy that had paid the bill at the previous dinner. So he goes ove…
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He was like, yeah, you're not supposed to know that. After that, Menendez began attending meetings, but he always stayed in the back. He was always arriving like after the meeting started, kind of like he wants to be a shadow on the wall. A…
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So it says documents he provided was a handwritten note that he said were his talking points for one of the early meetings. Our first time meeting was highly successful, Sinoco had written down. He listed seven successes. The first was that…
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Success number six was we are receiving some attention from the Cuban people that appear eager to help. Success number seven was Mr. Menendez contribution. Menendez had dropped off a contribution on the little group at their first meeting a…
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that Sunoka had, it showed that the author of a August 1984 letter from the Moon Front president was none other than an Air Force general by the name of R.D. Wallner, W-O-E-L-L-N-E-R, thanking Sunoka's…
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organization for attending the annual Reverend Moon organization convention and suggesting groups to work closely together in the future. Though the combination of a fringe religion and the Contras may seem strange, partly declassified CIA …
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This was during October 1982 that the FDN leaders met with Menendez in LA and San Francisco. The CIA inspector general's report is silent about what, if anything, the agency did next. Pena told CIA inspectors that the unnamed U.S. religious…